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March, 2015 – The Atlanitic, from an article entitled “What Isis Really Wants“, by Graeme Wood Some key points from The Atlantic and its feature article on “ISIS” this month: Other governments and leaders have misunderstood ISIS, and many really don’t even understand what they are about. This misunderstanding has resulted in foolish schemes to…

An article from the LA Times ran today, reporting: “Joseph Smith, Mormon church founder and prophet, took as many as 40 wives, at least one as young as 14, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have acknowledged in a series of essays posted as guideposts for the faithful. The church had…

Today, from the Jerusalem Post: Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, burying some alive and taking hundreds of women as slaves, an Iraqi government minister said on Sunday. Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents – who have ordered the community they regard as “devil…

Earlier this week reports came out of IRAQ that the Islamist extremist group ISIS was murdering hundred of people, and driving thousands out of their homes and into the mountains of IRAQ. Here is the report from Christian Solidarity International (CSI), also reported in some of the major media: In the last three weeks, the…

19 July 2014 – From AhramOnline, and Egyptian news source: “On Friday, Mosul’s mosques called through loudspeakers for Christians to leave, after centuries of being part of the once cosmopolitan city’s social fabric. Fadi said he could not afford to flee and argued that the prospects for those who did were hardly better. Islamic State (IS)…

This just in today… “Maiduguri: Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of people in an attack on three Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres from Chibok, the scene of an abduction of more than 200 school girls. Residents said the gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on worshippers and pursued them…

Very sad. Another young person lashes out and kills seven classmates, because he felt “rejected” and without hope for the future. He posted a video outlining his feelings about being rejected and without love, and his plan to have revenge. “Severely mentally disturbed” is how he is being labeled by the authorities. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-video-confession_n_5385175.html So…